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Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood

Explore episode Jul 20, 2026

Stress drives adaptation. He called it general adaptation syndrome, the general adaptation response, because what stress is, is your body acknowledging that you need to respond to some external stimulus. And so stress diverts resources so that you can then adapt to that stimulus.

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